- The pipes will go from here to here to here and then straight down that way.

- Right underneath those white guys.

- And then over. It's all gotta be clear-cut, it's all gotta be moved out of the way.

- We're a native owned and operated a pipeline company. You can look us up. We'd be granted the last 19 miles of the pipeline too.

- But unfortunately, some of this golf course is going to have to be way of the pipeline. Obviously the cheapest way is to run it straight through. So we're going to dig it up. They might put it back down. They're looking at schematics right now. It might be an above ground pipe because that's obviously the cheapest right through

- [Carl Iron Eyes] Energy, it surrounds us, connects us, penetrates us,energy fuels our favorite moments and even the not so favorite ones. But there's a problem with who controls pipelines and decides where they're laid. And that matters when they leak, violate sacred sites and treaty rights, and just generally blow up Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline is no different. It will cross treaty territory and affect native communities all over Minnesota, as it brings crude oil from the tar sands to Lake Superior, where it's shipped away. But like our ancestors, Enbridge knows the healing power of a gift. That's why they're handing over control of the final 19 miles of Line 3's thousand miles stretch, and allowing us to decide where it should be laid and whose lives that should affect. We are The Indigenous Pipeline Council. For a long time, our people have been saying the pipeline's been contamination, sickness, and death. We are here to reroute those fears of the pipeline, that carry something else entirely: thick, juicy, justice. I guess the best part for me would be trying to is creating all that really uncomfortable uncertainty. Cause it's so much poverty. Like there's glimpses of hope that industry gives us. And then like the big reveal of that, It will be cool to share that hopelessness with white people It's going to be worth it. Brand new ancient set.

- I got this for you. Instead of wine, we've got oil. I'm excited. This is the big day. I am Carl Iron Eyes, CEO and clan father for the IPC

- I am Coyote Mick Tomi, chief technology and communications officer, also a clan father and an Ojibwe from right here, Minnesota.

- We are undertaking construction of the final 19 miles of Line 3 mainly right through the heart of Duluth.

- Some Duluth residents may be worried about the so-called Boom Town effect, violent and nonviolent crime. We natives have a lot of experience with these phenomenon when they find oil in our communities and we're prepared to do what it takes to make sure that these things don't happen right here to the good people of Duluth. Coyote Mick has been granted the rights to do a ceremony If anyone would like to get a blessing from Coyote here and we're inviting you into the family as honorary oil chiefs Generally we conduct and we close our meetings with a song and a dance, I'm pretty proud and excited. The first time we're actually opening up one of our ancient tribal dances to non-Indian people. We're going to take the path of the black snake.

- Oh yeah we can take questions. What's your name? What is this for?

- The news. If you looked at the industrial expansion on Indian lands, they don't really have to have time to talk to native people and just go right through. So using that methodology, we're applying that here to Duluth and we're just going to look, we're going to bulldoze right through.

- Money jobs, the economy,

- Money over everything, America first.

- There's one possibly two cemeteries that may be affected.

- Whereas, in when they in standing rock where they just destroyed these burial sites, we're going to relocate some.

- Respectfully.

- Really if they were alive, they would, they would be in support of this pipeline as well.

- Oh yeah. You got to put that on. You're an oil chief now oil chief

- Seems like a wild plan.

- Say one of those older Ojibwe prayers.

- Lord, we come to you, in prayer this time and actually stop the baby killers. Stop the pipeline killers and the black snake killers. God bless our oil.

- Amen.

- They want to silence us. They're trying to censor us. We don't want to push us to the side. Just like all through history. It's the same thing. Oh, come on everybody. Let's go to the reservation.

- Just put those on. We'll take a picture real quick. So America first, right? It's all about growth, right? The economy. And if you have to move some caskets and cemeteries, fine? As long as they're laid someplace else nice.

- We'll probably find something maybe. So here we are at a cemetery for Sacred Remains Relocation. We are spending top dollar on the removal We have ceremonies, we have songs and permits. And really we're just trying to be as respectful as he possibly can to the family of the dearly departed

- And a lot of these graves are old. You know, these people died a long time ago and at some point you gotta get over it and we just gotta move forward. Progress.

- This is how we give back to the community.

- You know I'm just grateful to the equal opportunity. Hiring policy of a sacred remains relocation service. I'm just glad to have work.

- What did you do before? Digging up dead people but on a less professional basis Sacred!

- Where you guys all coming from.

- That's life in the sacred remains relocation business. Sometimes you move an ancestors around... They want to see your paperwork. You know, we're just here to do a job it's about industry, it's about energy. It's sometimes it's better to, you know, ask for forgiveness afterwords.

- So we're just in the car about to pull up in front of a church next to a beautiful cemetery, beautiful church in beautiful cemetery next to each other as their mass lets out just so we can get some more of the residents to see the process of sacred remains relocation, which our crew are going to demonstrate today and how carefully and respectfully we remove sacred remains that have to be displaced by the pipeline.

- What's this all about.

- What are you, what is this all about?

- Oh, we're just, we're part of a pipeline company. The contract by Enbridge. So we're going to have to move some remains for the pipeline Oh yeah, no, we have permission. We have eminent domain from Enbridge. From Enbridge. eminent domain because they're rerouting their pipeline. Oh, you want to talk to the person? Oh, here. Here's our PR person.

- Are you the pastor of this church or the priest.

- No I'm a trustee. When they put in pipelines they have to move bodies out And so we're just there's we have consent to move one of the one or two of these bodies, which is what we're doing.

- You're doing what? Grave removals. This happens when pipelines go through. They do it on reservations.

- We don't care about that.

- You don't care about Standing Rock?

- Not on a Sunday. Right after service finished.

- We just got out of church.

- What I'm saying is that this happens on reservations. They remove bodies or plow over them to put a pipeline in We just left a peaceful service, maybe today isn't the day.

- But in the name of the economy and pipelines, that's what we want to do. Guys, good, good job. Thank you very much. All right. We should probably head out... We have three more cemeteries to hit in the county. So let's go, let's put this pipeline through.

- Were they going to bury them here?

- No, I think they're being moved. Without any notification before you do something like this, don't you call, get a dialogue going or had they tried?

- They did a community consultation in Duluth yesterday. You're just supposed to show up if you're along the route

- One day millions and millions of years down the road. They're going to turn into oil anyway.

- Oh my gosh, like, oh fucking gosh type of shit.

- These n*****, just dug up, these n***** just dug up, somebody fucking grave site G. What the, look, it's like the It's like the... head. Rest in peace to whoever that is. Oh my gosh.

- A group calling themselves. The Indigenous Pipeline Council introduced their supposed plans for involving the Enbridge Line 3 replacement pipeline project to the Duluth community today, the Council says they were gifted a 19-mile portion of the Line 3 pipeline to place through Duluth. Council speakers said they plan on placing the oil line through Duluth suburbs and along the waterfront.

- As the oil and pipeline comes through, just prepare, prepare for a change. Some of it bad, some of it good.

- The group claims this project expected to begin in the coming months, will change the way Duluth looks entirely and it should be complete by mid 2021.

- All right, that's news.

- So Fox put out a story two days ago about the launch of the IPC And it was really great and we shared it everywhere. And then yesterday they called Enbridge and fact checked the story, which is bizarre that they didn't do that before.

- A group calling itself the Indigenous Pipeline Council may actually be a comedy group that puts on hoaxes and... Enbridge responded to these clients in an email today saying well, their claims are patently false. This is a lie. We asked the Indigenous Pipeline Council. If this is a hoax put on by the Yes Men group but they did not responded.

- This isn't real?

- We're really not working with everybody. I thought this is real the whole time. You guys ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

- So we got a call from the Minnesota post.

- I just have a couple questions for ya, I'm a reporter from Minnesota.

- So we have two reporters. Let's just call.

- Two more?

- I think so right.

- Yeah there's two right here.

- They all sound like fake names.

- Hi this is Jimmy Lover, with Duluth News Tribune.

- How long have you been in this country? Is your real name Jimmy or is it James?

- It's James? Yeah, you're right. This is just history playing itself out again. Another white man is lying to a couple of Indians. I'm not giving you a false name. James. I'm not giving you a false name. James. I'm accusing you of giving me a false name in lying to me. Your name's James, not Jimmy.

- When you guys are doing this, I mean, it's humorous, but while you're doing it, I guess, is there sometimes there's like that seething rage.

- Like specifically my favorite part was probably when they dropped the coffin, because that made me laugh. The hardest I had to run and hide behind my van. Because I was losing it. They are destroying burial grounds, that happened in Standing Rock and his response is like, I don't care about Standing Rock. We don't care about Standing Rock. And that was as truthful as he could possibly get.

- And when you treat them, how would they treat us, it's, how could you do such a thing, you know? But... lucky for that lucky for them it was fake.

- Right, that's always the thing. You can see their outrage and how could you feel bad because it's not real. No, you each have three minutes. That's the plan.

- But you have to start it off by saying what the story is because basically no one will know the story. You can't just be like, so as you all know, we've been wreaking havoc in Duluth.

- We are here at Duluth city hall. We have one more thing to do.

- Thank you, your honor ship. You're right. It is me. Tito Ybarra, I'm not really a Trump supporter. I'm just feel safe going through this town with this on. I also participated in the events this weekend My reason is to disrupt people's comfort levels.

- And what we did was we had spent the past weekend engaging with Duluthians and members around the community, exposing them to the realities of what indigenous peoples go through. When a pipeline begins to expand in our territory. Our autonomy is removed. We have really no say in this. Indigenous peoples aren't anti-development, we're not simple people who can't understand economic growth We live under a colonial enforced poverty, The pipeline that's coming through isn't just oil. It's coming from the tar sands where I'm from in Alberta It's viscous, in order for it to dilute and move, they have to create a toxic cocktail. If there's a pipeline, spill and spills happen on average, Northern Alberta and Saskatchewan, once per day, if one of those stills happens here, you're not dealing with just a pipeline spill. We are defending our people and our lands. We know people don't like traffic being blocked that kind of civil disruption. So we did it in a way that was maybe less confrontational. If you can make somebody laugh rather than scold them and try to teach them that way, I think it's a lot more effective. I'd like to just end right now and lead everybody in, in the song of Amazing Grace. So if you know it sing along.

- We posed as an indigenous oil pipeline company.

- Kind of for us to kind of goes back to being tricksters because there's a lot to learn from our, some of our stories from our tricksters, but really being in that and getting people to fall into our reality is, is great.

- And you can't empathize with somebody. if you haven't experienced the same thing yourself. We're not subjecting them to the reality. We're not forcing them. There's this kind of coaxing of having them believe that they're now in it.

- So a lot of people were blind, but hopefully now they see. Hallelujah.

- I know they're probably grateful as fuck, that they get to go back to their normal, comfortable life. And that this was all just a joke. This shit's real, they're poisoning our water, our wild rice beds throughout Minnesota. They're putting them at risk, the pipes will eventually leak When you're fighting for climate and for your people It's a really long battle. And that can be really draining just knowing that there's somebody in the front line right now that would watch this and laugh their asses off. Just for that one moment in their day, that helps. Here's the sacred Two Sisters Divining Rod of oil. It's white.